Hundreds of people have been killed since November 15 in a concerted push by the government and its allies to quash resistance in the rebel-held part of Aleppo to re-establish control over Syria’s biggest pre-war city.

Aleppo has become the fiercest front in Syria’s five-and-a-half-year war, pitting President Bashar al-Assad’s forces supported by Russia, Iran and Shi’ite militias against mostly Sunni rebels including some backed by Turkey, the US and Gulf monarchies.

It was the first time Russia has used the territory of another nation, apart from Syria itself, to launch such strikes since the Kremlin launched a bombing campaign to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in September last year.

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